Research Coordinator

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10 is an education research organization with a philanthropic focus on expanding ideas about learning and creating direct value for youth. In collaboration with a wide range of partners, we surface, evaluate, and share opportunities to better support youth learning both inside and outside the classroom. Building on more than a decade of impactful work, our unique approach blends applied and experimental research, philanthropy, and education programs rooted in evidence-based best practices.

We are seeking a Research Coordinator for the Conceptual Development Lab (CDL), reporting to the CDL Senior Researcher, Kara Weisman. Research in the Conceptual Development Lab focuses on how people learn to represent and reason about abstract concepts, and how educators and parents/caregivers can support conceptual development among young children. Recent projects have investigated preschoolers’ early number knowledge and caregivers’ beliefs about play.

New lines of work might focus on children’s developing representations of minds, bodies, and emotions, as well as caregivers’ and educators’ beliefs about child development. Research in the lab usually takes the form of research “games” designed for children between the ages of 2-10 years, and surveys or interviews designed for parents, caregivers, or other adults.

• Participant recruitment and data collection
  • Recruiting families and schools to participate in research through email outreach, social media campaigns, phone calls, and in‑person recruitment.
  • Coordinating with school administrators, teachers, museum liaisons, and parents/caregivers to gather consent and schedule data collection.
  • Collecting data with children between the ages of ~2-10 years and their parents/caregivers, both in person (e.g., at Seattle‑area preschools and children’s museums) and online (e.g., via Zoom, online survey platforms).
  • Providing training and support to Research Assistants who might join the lab on a shorter‑term basis.
• Project management
  • Using project‑management software to track project‑related tasks and schedules.
  • Participating in project team meetings.
  • Writing IRB protocols.
• Data management, preparation, and analysis
  • Entering data, cleaning data, de‑identifying data, and storing data while following foundry
    10 and lab‑specific guidelines.
  • Assisting with analysis, including qualitative analysis of videos of children and caregivers and statistical analysis of quantitative data.
  • Sharing results through written reports, conference submissions, journal submissions, and internal presentations and reports.
• Secondary responsibilities
  • Supporting and potentially leading the conception and implementation of new research projects, including conducting literature reviews, participating in discussions of relevant research, designing and piloting new research games for children and surveys for adults.
  • Supporting foundry
    10 colleagues outside of the Conceptual Development Lab, including providing temporary assistance with data collection for projects outside the lab, providing feedback on colleagues’ presentations and writing, and participating in collaborations between the lab and other foundry
    10 colleagues.
  • Managing communication through the study@foundry
    10 email account.
• This is not an exhaustive list; other duties may be assigned as necessary.

• Bachelor’s degree in Psychology, Education, Human Development, Cognitive Science, or a related field with a minimum of 1 year of research experience within a university or professional research setting (e.g., collecting data with human subjects in a social/behavioral science research lab).
• Subject‑area expertise, such as knowledge of child development, experience with data collection and management, and experience with data analysis.
• Experience working directly with children between the ages of 2 and 10 years (e.g., babysitting, tutoring, prior research involving data collection with children).

• Experience working directly with children between the ages of 2-10 years.
• Experience collecting data with human subjects.
• Strong attention to detail.
• Organizational and…